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WIRE SPLIUER AND SPIRAL SPRING WINDER- 310,450,203.

Patented Apr. 14, 1891-.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFIcE.

JOSIAH D. VAN DYOKE, OF ONEONTA, NElV YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO STEVENS & HILLS, OF SAME'PLAOE.

WIRE-SPLICER AND SPIRAL=SPRING WINDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 450,203, dated April 14, 1891.

Application filed October 27, 1890. Serial No. 369,529. (ModeL) i To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSIAH D. VAN DYCKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oneonta, in the county of Otsego and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Wire-Splicer and Spiral-Spring Winder, of which the following is a specification.

The invention is a simple tool with which telegraph wires, telephone wires, electriclight wires, and wires of all other kinds, either of large .or small size, can be firmly and easily spliced at a great saving of time and labor.

My invention may also be applied in coiling spiral springs.

I attain these objects by means of the tool. illustrated by the drawings, in which- Figures 1 and. 2 show detail perspectives of the tool as applied to the splicing of wires.

In Fig. 1, A represents the shank orhandle of the tool. Z) l) is an adjustable hook used to engage a main wire e. The hook passes through the head a of the tool and is clamped by a set-screw t, thus allowing the hook to engage larger or smaller wires.

Fig. 2 shows a bottom plan view of the same tool. at is a cylindrical hole passing through the ofiset m of the shank A of the tool and parallel to said shank, which is used to engage the free end cl of the wire. f is a clamp which is used to hold the wires to be spliced together and stationary. This clamp may be a vise, pinchers, or other apparatus, and is not claimed as a part of my invention.

ihe manner in which my invention is applied to wire-splicing is very simple. The ends of the wires cl and e to be spliced are brought togetherso that the ends will pass each other several inches. Midway between the ends a clamp is applied, and then the free ends of the wires are bent so as to stand nearly perpendicular to the main portions of these wires. One of the free'ends, as d, is then engaged by passing it through the hole n until the hook 1) comes in contact With the main portion of the wire 6. The free end at is then tightly and firmly wound around the main portion of the wire by revolving the tool about it, forming the coil h. The other free end is fastened in the same manner.

The application of my invention to winding spiral springs is similar to that of Y splicing wires. The hook b h is adjusted so as to engage a cylinder of a diameter equal to that desired for the spiral spring. One end of the wire to be formed into a spring is clamped against the cylinder. The other arm or free end is then engaged by passing it through the hole or until the hook comes into contact with the cylinder. The wire can then be Wound into a spiral spring by revolving the tool around the cylinder.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is--- The combination, in a wire splicer and spiral-spring winder, of anadjustable hook fastened to a metal shank or handle. which hook is to engage the main wire, and a cylindrical hole passing through an offset of the head and parallel to the handle and at the side of the hook to engage the free end of the wire which is to be wound around the main portion of the wire by revolving the handle, substantially as herein described.

JOSIAH D. VAN DYOKE.

Witnesses:

B. W. HoYE, W. W. DARBEE. 

